Showing posts with label strawberries. Show all posts
Showing posts with label strawberries. Show all posts

Saturday, July 19, 2008

Celebration Oreo Ice Cream Cake


Ingredients:
24 Oreo Cookies, divided
1 pt (2 cups) strawberry ice cream, softened
2 cups Cool-Whip, thawed, divided
1 pt. (2 cups) chocolate ice cream, softened
2 tbsp fudge ice cream topping
Directions:
Line a 9-in cake pan with plastic wrap, with ends overlapping the sides. Stand 14 of the cookies around the edge of the pan. Crush remaining 10 cookies. Reserve 1/2 cup of the crumbs and sprinkle the rest in the bottom of the cake pan. Spread the strawberry ice cream over the crumbs. Top with 1 cup of the Cool-whip and the 1/2 cup of reserved cookie crumbs. Cover with the chocolate ice cream.
Freeze for 4 hours or overnight.
Remove dessert from pan just before serving, using the overlapped plastic wrap edges to gently lift it from the pan. Carefully peel off plastic & place dessert on a serving plate. Let stand at room temperature for 10 minutes to soften. Top evenly with the remaining 1 cup of Cool-whip and garnish with Fudge topping. Store leftover dessert in freezer.

Strawberry Short Cupcakes



Ingredients:
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup milk
1 tsp vanilla
1 1/2 cups plus 3 tbsp sugar, divided
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, softened
3 eggs
Redi-Whip
2 quarts fresh strawberries, sliced

Directions:

Preheat oven to 350° F. Spray 18 standard muffin cups with nonstick cooking spray.

Combine flour, baking powder and salt in medium bowl. Combine milk and vanilla in measuring cup. Beat 1 1/2 cups sugar and butter in large bowl with an electric mixer until creamy. Add eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add flour mixture alternately with milk mixture, beating until well blended. Spoon batter into prepared muffin cups, filling about 3/4 full.

Bake 18-20 minutes or until toothpick inserted into centers comes out clean. Cool cupcakes in pans on wire racks for 10 minutes. Remove from pans; cool completely on wire racks.

Cut cupcakes in half crosswise. Top wach bottom half with about 2 tbsp Redi-Whip and strawberries. Top with top half of cupcake. Garnish top with more Redi-Whip and strawberries.




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Thursday, July 17, 2008

Strawberry Banana Trifle


Ingredients:
1 cup sugar
1/4 cup cornstarch
3 tbsp strawberry gelatin powder
1 cup cold water
1 pint fresh strawberries, sliced
1 1/3 cups cold milk
1 pkg instant vanilla pudding mix
3 medium, firm bananas, sliced
1 tbsp lemon juice
6 cups cubed angel food cake
Tub Cool-Whip, thawed
Directions:
In a saucepan combine the sugar, cornstarch and gelatin; stir in water until smooth. Bring to a boil; cook and stir for 2 minutes or until thickened. Remove from the heat, stir in strawberries. Set aside.
In a mixing bowl, combine the milk and pudding mix. Beat on low speed for 2 minutes, set aside. Toss bananas with lemon juice, drain; set aside.
Place half the cake cubes in a trifle bowl. Layer with half the pudding, bananas, strawberry sauce & cool-whip. Repeat layers.
Cover and refrigerate for at least 2 hours. Garnish with any extra strawberry or banana slices.

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